[geeks] more on dune

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:15:18 +0300, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> It was based on an assurance from someone high up in the Turkish
> government along with assurances from the people organzing the
> flotila that they were peaceful and unarmed. 

Whilst such assurances may well be enough to suggest the use of
non-lethal weapons in boarding the ships, it doesn't mean that lowering
soldiers one by one wasn't dumb in the extreme.

After all such information cannot be trusted ... the people making the
assurances could be lying, mistaken, or are being deceived.
Particularly seeing as the flotilla was made up of a coalition of
different organisations.



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